Antarctic research and expeditions vol. 10

Abstract

BTS 102/2(10) 1 folder, 149 pages. Pages are out of order. Contains duplicates. Manuscript notes. Some pages are hard to read. Note by the Secretary of the Polar Committee on French Antarctic Activity. Paper giving the general details of the 1954 Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition to MacRobertson Land prepared by the Director of the Antarctic Division of the Department of External Affairs, Canberra. Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey, 1953-1954. Letter to the Secretary for External Affairs regarding the possibility of sounding out Buenos Aires and Santiago with a view to discovering whether they would be ready to enter talks to find a solution to the territorial disputes over the Antarctic. Copy of the unofficial Draft Tripartite Declaration left by the Argentine Ambassador at the Foreign Office and response to this draft by the First Secretary R.C.C. Hunt. Note to the Argentine Minister for Foreign Affairs Regarding Conflicting Claims to Territory in the Antarctic by Henry B. Mack, 10 November 1953, Section 1. Unclassified Enclosure regarding the Renewal of Tripartite Naval Declarations, 28 November 1953. Extract from a letter dated 20 November, 1953, from Mr. R. Cecil, British Embassy, Copenhagen, to Mr. T.W. Garvey, Foreign Office, on the subject of Argentine attempts to secure Danish interest in her Antarctic activities. Document regarding the Proposed Argentine Air Force Base on Dundee Island, comment upon “The Times” report of December 10, 1953. Letter from the First Secretary to the Office of the High Commissioner for the United Kingdom regarding Press reports that the Argentine authorities were proposing to establish a permanent air base on Dundee Island in British Antarctica, 4 January 1954. Press release dated 11 December 1953, by the Department of External Affairs about the forthcoming Australian Antarctic Expedition. Cambridge University Accounts for the years 1952-53 containing the accounts of the Scott Polar Research Institute. Extract from the “New Zealand Gazette”, 3 September, 1953, announcing the appointment and the duties of the Officer of the Government of the Ross Dependency. Statement by the Minister of External Affairs, Mr. R.G. Casey, that an Australian Antarctic Station had been set up on the Antarctic Mainland, 18 February, 1954. Other statements regarding the Antarctic Expedition ship “Kista Dan” also included. Letter to the Office of the High Commissioner for the United Kingdom from the First Secretary for External Affairs regarding the visit of the Argentine Minister of Marine aboard the Argentine Naval Transport vessel “Les Eclaireurs” to the Argentine bases in Antarctica to demonstrate Argentine claims to Sovereignty, 18 March 1954. Minutes of the meeting of the Antarctic Place-names Committee on 18 March, 1954. Memorandum giving further information about the visit of the Argentine Minister of Marine to the Antarctic, 30 April 1954. A further Statement by Mr. R.G. Casey, issued by the Australian Department of External Affairs titles “Achievements Reviewed” regarding the results of the Australian Antarctic Expedition.